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16-28B-3
Section 16-28B-3 Definitions. The following terms have the following meanings: (1) BULLYING.
A continuous pattern of intentional behavior that takes place on or off of school property,
on a school bus, or at a school-sponsored function including, but not limited to, cyberbullying
or written, electronic, verbal, or physical acts that are reasonably perceived as being motivated
by any characteristic of a student, or by the association of a student with an individual
who has a particular characteristic, if the characteristic falls into one of the categories
of personal characteristics contained in the model policy adopted by the department or by
a local board, and implemented at each school. To constitute bullying, a pattern of behavior
may do any of the following: a. Place a student in reasonable fear of harm to his or her person
or damage to his or her property. b. Have the effect of substantially interfering with the
educational performance, opportunities, or benefits of a student. c....
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16-46B-3
Section 16-46B-3 Funding for teacher professional learning programs. (a) Subject to
appropriation from the Legislature, funds shall be appropriated to the department and the
department shall allocate those funds to eligible entities to develop and implement teacher
professional learning programs for the required computer science courses and content. (b)
For the purposes of this section, eligible entities shall include high quality computer
science professional learning providers, including institutions of higher education physically
located in the state, nonprofits dedicated to providing high quality computer science professional
learning as determined by the superintendent, and private entities. (c) For the purposes of
this section, eligible entities do not include a local education agency or a consortium
of local education agencies. (d) Eligible uses of funds appropriated for computer science
professional learning are as follows: (1) High quality professional learning for K-12...
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16-1-48
Section 16-1-48 Anaphylaxis preparedness program. (a) The State Department of Education
shall develop an anaphylaxis preparedness program to be adopted by each local board of education
and implemented in each K-12 public school commencing with the 2015-2016 scholastic year.
The Alabama State Board of Pharmacy shall provide guidance, direction, and advice to the State
Department of Education in developing and administering the anaphylaxis preparedness program.
(b) The anaphylaxis preparedness program shall incorporate the following three levels of prevention
initiated by licensed public school nurses as a part of the health services program: (1) Level
I, primary prevention: Education programs that address food allergies and anaphylaxis through
both classroom and individual instruction for staff and students. (2) Level II, secondary
prevention: Identification and management of chronic illness. (3) Level III, tertiary prevention:
The development of a planned response to...
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16-13-234
Section 16-13-234 Allocation of funds. (a) In making apportionment of the Public School
Fund held by the state, to the local boards of education, the State Superintendent of Education
shall first set apart and distribute to the schools of each township the amount due from the
state thereto as interest on its sixteenth section fund, or other trust fund held by
the state. (b) It is the intent of the Legislature to insure that no local board of education
receive less state funds per pupil than it received in fiscal year 1994-95. For this reason
the Foundation Program for each local board of education shall be supplemented, if necessary,
by a hold harmless allowance. The base amount of each local board's hold harmless allowance
calculation is the 1994-95 program cost as defined herein. The 1994-95 program cost of each
local board of education was determined by using the first forty scholastic days of average
daily membership from 1993-94. Beginning with the fiscal year 1995-96, the hold...
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16-1-40
Section 16-1-40 Education Trust Fund proration relief. (a) During fiscal year 2009 and
any fiscal year in which proration is declared by the Governor in an amount equal to or greater
than three percent, local boards of education, with the recommendation of the local superintendent,
may transfer Education Trust Fund line item appropriations including the Public School Fund,
except Public School Fund monies dedicated to a specific capital outlay project or debt service
and except for Alabama Public School and College Authority funds which are allocated for a
specific capital outlay project, between and among appropriated line item categories. No state
funds shall be transferred from funds appropriated for salaries, fringe benefits, or student
materials allocations. (b) Prior to any implementation of the flexibility provisions of this
section, the local board of education shall produce a plan indicating the source and
amount to be transferred from each line item and show that the transfer...
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16-13-231
Section 16-13-231 Purposes and plan of apportionment. (a) In addition to all other appropriations
and apportionments of public school money now provided by law and made available for public
schools there shall be apportioned and paid to local boards of education from the Foundation
Program Fund, the amounts to be determined as hereinafter provided and in accordance with
regulations of the State Board of Education. This Foundation Program Fund shall be used principally:
(1) To aid in providing at least a 180 full instructional day minimum school term, or the
hourly equivalent thereof, except as otherwise provided in paragraph c. of subdivision (1)
of subsection (b); and, (2) To assist in the promotion of educational opportunity for all
children in the public schools. (b) The following requirements and procedures, supplemented
when necessary by regulations of the State Board of Education, shall govern the apportionment
of the fund: (1) REQUIREMENTS FOR PARTICIPATING IN FUND. In order for...
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16-28B-6
Section 16-28B-6 Duties of schools. Each school shall do all of the following: (1) Develop
and implement evidence-based practices to promote a school environment that is free of harassment,
intimidation, violence, and threats of violence. (2) Develop and implement evidence-based
practices to prevent harassment, intimidation, violence, and threats of violence based, as
a minimum, on the criteria established by this chapter and local board policy, and to intervene
when such incidents occur. (3) Incorporate into civility, citizenship, and character education
curricula awareness of and sensitivity to the prohibitions of this chapter and local board
policy against harassment, intimidation, violence, and threats of violence. (4) Report statistics
to the local board of actual violence, submitted reports of threats of violence, and harassment.
The local board shall provide the statistics of the school system and each school in the school
system to the department for posting on the department...
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16-33A-2
Section 16-33A-2 Legislative findings; purpose of chapter. The Legislature declares
that there exists within the State of Alabama a number of accredited independent colleges
and universities whose facilities could be used more effectively in the public interest by
the grant of financial assistance to residents of the state who choose to attend such colleges
and universities, in order to pay a portion of such residents' institutional related expenses
at such colleges and universities, thereby reducing the cost to taxpayers of the state below
the cost of providing similar instruction to such residents at institutions of higher learning
within the state higher education system. The Legislature finds and declares that there is
an apparent need to narrow the gap in student charges between public universities and colleges
and independent institutions of higher education in Alabama in order to provide students with
true economic and academic freedom of choice in selecting a college; and to...
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16-6B-2
Section 16-6B-2 Core curriculum. Every Alabama student shall be given instruction in
grades kindergarten through twelve to prepare him or her to enter the world of work and/or
to complete course work at the postsecondary level. In addition to a comprehensive core curriculum
of academics, each local board of education shall offer a program of vocational/technical
education. (a) The following words and phrases used in this section shall, in the absence
of a clear implication otherwise, be given the following respective interpretations: (1) REQUIRED
COURSES. Courses which are required to be taken by every student enrolled in public schools
in the State of Alabama. (2) ELECTIVE COURSES. Courses which are neither mandatory nor required
to be taken by any student enrolled in public schools in the State of Alabama. (b) The Legislature
finds that students must become more literate in the basic skills needed to earn a living
or to continue their education. The Legislature further finds that the...
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16-8-26
Section 16-8-26 Definitions; personal leave for teachers during time schools are in
session; reimbursement for unused personal leave. (a) When used in this section, the
following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) BOARD. Any public city or county board
of education; the Board of Trustees of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind; the Alabama
Youth Services Board in its capacity as the Board of Education for the Youth Services School
District; the Board of Directors of the Alabama School of Fine Arts; the Board of Directors
of the Alabama High School of Mathematics and Science; and, as applied to two-year postsecondary
education institutions, the State Board of Education. (2) SUPPORT PERSONNEL or SUPPORT EMPLOYEE.
Maid, custodian, adult bus driver, lunchroom or cafeteria worker, secretary, clerk, clerical
assistant, maintenance worker, or other non-certificated employee who works an average of
at least 20 hours weekly, excluding those employees who are covered by the State...
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